CVE-2008-6903 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.3 Published 6 Aug 2009 Updated 7 Aug 2024

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a malformed CAB archive when scanning is enabled, affecting Sophos Anti-Virus users.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2008-6903?

CVE-2008-6903 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Aug 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows before 7.6.3, Anti-Virus for Windows NT/9x before 4.7.18, Anti-Virus for OS X before 4.9.18, Anti-Virus for Linux before 6.4.5, Anti-Virus for UNIX before 7.0.5, Anti-Virus for Unix and Netware before 4.37.0, Sophos EM Library, and Sophos small business solutions, when CAB archive scanning is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a "fuzzed" CAB archive file, as demonstrated by the OUSPG PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6903?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Sophos Anti-Virus, Sophos Anti-Virus7.6.3.

How do I fix CVE-2008-6903?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6903 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-6903 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6903 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5h67-gj5j-53f7.